Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology is providing the help to 13 companies as part of the 2015 Manufacturing Technical Assistance Program, which is backed by state funding. The program focuses on innovative companies with fewer than 100 employees, said Karen Jarmon, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology.
One of the companies that is part of the program is ZetrOZ. The company got its start on the campus of Cornell University in 2009, but was lured to Trumbull in 2013 after the state’s technology investment agency, Connecticut Innovations, gave $1.3 million to ZetrOZ.
Jarmon said that by using a 3-D printer provided by the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, ZetrOZ was able to produce prototypes of its first product, a miniaturized device that delivers ultrasound therapy to the person wearing it for up to four hours per day.
Eric Wold, CCAT machining applications specialist. said that by using a 3-D printer, “CCAT was able to quickly, and cost effectively, create numerous iterations of ZetrOZ’s plastic housings that contain the system electronics.”
ZetrOZ’s product, which already has been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, is known as the SAM Professional system. It is currently used by professional athletes, dancers and others who suffer from injuries of muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Eric Kolb, ZetrOZ’s director of engineering, said the Manufacturing Technical Assistance Program has been beneficial for ZetrOZ.
“It has been designed with flexibility and minimal bureaucracy to benefit companies like ZetrOZ that have limited resources and are on tight development timelines.”
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